Vanessa Quick

UK Rheumatologist with an interest in GCA, PMR and medical education

[Vasculitis - In memory of John Mills MBE 💙💚 @vascuk]

🌏Today is #RareDiseaseAwareness Day!! The rarest day of the year!
#RareDiseaseDay, #vasculitis is a rare #rheumatic #autoimmune disease! #raredisease #together we are stronger!!! @LUPUSUK @WeAreSRUK @RAIRDA_org #BSSA

[Dr Ai Lyn Tan @DrAiLynTan]

Do you have PolyMyalgia Rheumatica #PMR?

🚶🏽#Exercise & incorporating #physicalactivity into your day has health benefits
😀Mood
🦴Bones
💪🏽Muscles
➕More

Here's a new guide to help you, co-produced by patients & specialists, supported by @PMRGCAuk
👉🏽https://t.co/hHdFMeta7d

[Polymyalgia+GCA @PMRGCAuk]

The #TOCSTOP research (@VanessaQuick3 et al) clearly shows that for #GCA patients who receive a year's treatment of tocilizumab - 1/3 relapse by 1 year and 1/2 relapse by 2 years https://t.co/PFbIiouF0s. GCA patients need greater access to this drug.

[Vanessa Quick @VanessaQuick3]

@IhabFathiSulima Ultrasound should be the first test for #GCA diagnosis if available. TAB would v likely be an unnecessary / invasive test in this florid case, plus unlike ultrasound it would not give additional info about large vessel #LVV involvement

https://t.co/yNZu0AChMy.

[Vanessa Quick @VanessaQuick3]

@ward_round @OGdukeneurosurg In Europe and increasingly in the states ultrasound is the first test for GCA and biopsy is reserved for uncertain cases

https://t.co/6wUZmlelkZ

https://t.co/yNZu0AChMy.

[Vanessa Quick @VanessaQuick3]

@ward_round @OGdukeneurosurg Temporal arteritis is an out dated but still used name for GCA, as the condition affects a much wider number of arteries in many patients. A significant proportion have large vessel involvement including the aorta and its large branches such as the axillaries.

[Vanessa Quick @VanessaQuick3]

Bhaskar Dasgupa teaching #GCA #ultrasound at #ArLAR in Kuwait.

[Vanessa Quick @VanessaQuick3]

Delighted to announce that TOC STOP, a national service evaluation of #GCA patients that have completed a course of #Tocilizumab has recruited 379 patients from 40 Trusts across England and Wales. @PMRGCAuk @RheumatologyUK #ENRAD @NICEguidance

[Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) @NHSGIRFT]

Have your seen our 4 new pathways for core #rheumatology conditions with #BestMSKhealth?
🔹Inflammatory arthritis
🔹GCA
🔹Connective Tissue Disease
🔹Axial SpA
Huge thanks to @NRAS_UK @PMRGCAuk @RAIRDA_org @NASSexercise for their support

Find them here:🔗https://t.co/ZJUJcsNOuX

[Eric Dein @ericdeinmd]

Advice for new fellows:
Visit 1: Dx- fibromyalgia
Visit 2: MSKUS w/o synovitis
Visit 3: carpal tunnel syndrome
Visit 4: carpal tunnel injection
Visit 5 today: clinical and sonographic synovitis across MCPs and PIPs

Things change. Never put someone firmly in one box
#RheumTwitter

[Vanessa Quick @VanessaQuick3]

@cpgale3 @HSRatBMC Grace cardiovascular

[Vanessa Quick @VanessaQuick3]

Rheum led FTPs increase rates of secure diagnosis, reduce biopsy rates and reduce sight loss in GCA all for less cost and less admission days. Pushing GCA suspects to A/E will reverse all that.

[Vanessa Quick @VanessaQuick3]

Worrying: This doesn’t follow BSRs own GCA guideline 2020 “Pts should be evaluated by a specialist ideally on the same working day and in all cases within 3 working days” and may deincentivise Rheum depts to set up GCA fast track pathways as a 1 day rule will feel unachievable

[Dr Ai Lyn Tan @DrAiLynTan]

The British Society for #Rheumatology @RheumatologyUK developed guidance to help ensure right patients are seen promptly by UK specialist

Getting It Right First Time #GIRFT
👉🏽https://t.co/noz6kLc7Uv

...including conditions not to be referred to rheumatology
👇🏽

[Vanessa Quick @VanessaQuick3]

@profbdasgupta @DrAiLynTan @RheumatologyUK @dalia_ludwig @alwinuk Rheum led FTPs increase rates of secure diagnosis, reduce biopsy rates and reduce sight loss in GCA all for less cost and less admission days. Pushing GCA suspects to A/E will reverse all that.

[Vanessa Quick @VanessaQuick3]

@profbdasgupta @DrAiLynTan @RheumatologyUK @dalia_ludwig @alwinuk Worrying: This doesn’t follow BSRs own GCA guideline 2020 “Pts should be evaluated by a specialist ideally on the same working day and in all cases within 3 working days” and may deincentivise Rheum depts to set up GCA fast track pathways as a 1 day rule will feel unachievable

[Cornwall Coast @Cornwall_Coast]

What we’d give for a summer’s day on a Cornish beach! Bliss! #Cornwall #Porthcurno

[Dr. John Cush @RheumNow]

2020 Rheumatology Year in Review-- Read our top news items that rheumatologists should recollect and integrate into clinical standards for 2021 and beyond.

https://t.co/QisCpdcLEa

[Martin Landray @MartinLandray]

RECOVERY Recruitment Update:

26,000 patients enrolled
(including over 3,000 randomised in the ongoing comparison to tocilizumab vs. usual care)

[remap-cap @remap_cap]

@remap_cap is proud to announce the findings of IL-6 blockade in critically ill patients with #COVID19.
https://t.co/tPWv4KqTlC (1/10)